Ringelmann effect

Do you know anything about Ringelmann effect? I was working today and thinking about it the whole time.

The Ringelmann effect is the tendency for individual members of a group to become increasingly less productive as the size of their group increases.

In 1930 Ringelmann found that having group members work together on a task (e.g., pulling a rope) actually results in significantly less effort than when individual members are acting alone. Furthermore, Ringelmann discovered that as more and more people are added to a group, the group often becomes increasingly inefficient, ultimately violating the notion that group effort and team participation reliably leads to increased effort on behalf of the members. If set one person’s effort for 100%, two people together will pull a robe each of them only 93% from their ability, four people together will put only 49% of their effort knowing that there is somebody else is working for them.

Not much to add, apart from if you want to make job done do it yourself or delegate it to only ONE person or better to the person number ONE. But person number One it is me. Circle is closed.